general-trinh-is-delivering-papers

chapter-90

They were approaching the same check point that they had passed on the way in, only this time it was manned. The wooden crossbar had been lowered. There looked to be about a dozen soldiers there.

"Run it," Kincaid said as he got a missile launcher ready. But there was no decent target. The largest thing he could see was a cluster of men. He could home it in on them but the armor piercing missile would go right through a man without exploding. Kincaid let the missile fly anyway, switching off the guidance system. He reached for his Hackler & Koch without waiting to see the effect of the missile.

"There are extra clips for the M-16 in that box," Kincaid told Mohammed Parsee.

The Ayatollah was unconscious in the back seat. He had blood trickling down from a bruise over his right eye.

"What happened to him?"

"I put him away for safe keeping," the CIA agent said. "You take the right and I take the left?"

"Okay," Kincaid said.

The missile had scattered the soldiers at the checkpoint. Some were running across a field. Kincaid hadn't heard it explode.